Ithaca School District

Get ready to celebrate! Happy Birthday wishes today, June 14th, to Cole Brownlee! Have a great day.

Birthday Wishes! Today, June 13th, we wish Kaylee Miller and Carissa Willis a very Happy Birthday! Celebrate and make it unbelievable.

June is Dairy Month! It's hard to beat celebrating Dairy Month than eating fresh cheese curds. Patrons of our Food Program Pick Up were able to get fresh Carr Valley curd compliments of a donation from Jones Chevrolet-Buick of Richland Center. Fifty pounds of curd were handed out last night and another 50 pounds will be handed out on June 25 to our Food Program families. (And don't forget to sign up for next week's food program!)

Ithaca Public School is looking to fill a new position of bookkeeper and administrative assistant to our staff. A full description of this position is found in our District Policy Manual - Policy 361 (a link is below). To apply, complete the Employment Application found on our website under "Employment" and submit to our district office. Questions may be referred to Brooke Hackl, District HR/Payroll at 585-2512 during normal business hours. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pvHoTTk3a_U-5812dhPMSZzd7fiipKiuxiKejZzBBRY/edit

Substitute Teacher Training! Have you considered becoming a substitute teacher for the Ithaca School District or other surrounding districts? CESA 3 will be offering VIRTUAL substitute teacher training next Tuesday, June 16th. If you or someone you know has an interest, sign up here: https://bit.ly/2W9CraX This training, along with an associate's degree or higher, is a requirement for a substitute teacher's license in Wisconsin.

Ithaca Staff wanted to still be able to send our students off into the summer break with flair! Check out this video of Ithaca Staff wishing our students well as we head into summer. Have a great Summer Break! Stay well and have fun. https://spark.adobe.com/video/STFizIdoSraiO

Remember, you can view our Board of Education and Committee meeting ZOOM recordings at the following location on our website: https://www.ithaca.k12.wi.us/o/ithaca-school-district/page/2020-video-links

Seniors and senior families! Please take your banners from the display in front of the Community Gym as soon as possible. Also, keep July 12 open as the date for our face-to-face graduation! Details will not be finalized until the end of June, so stay tuned.

To celebrate, or not to celebrate? That should never be the question! Happy Birthday, today, June 10th to Mrs. Melany Wontor! We hope it's gr8.

Congratulations to our one and only FFA advisor, tech Ed teacher, and agriculture teacher Mr. Favreau on receiving the Ken Solis award! This award is for an outstanding teacher in out school and is given to one teacher per year. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and FFA and congrats again on your accomplishment Mr. Favreau!

If you filled out a Food Service survey for next week and it appeared differently than other weeks, please complete the survey again. Inadvertently it was edited, and there were missing question fields. The information that you would enter there is needed for our program. Thanks for your cooperation.

Good luck to Talena Sprecher as she competes in the National FCCLA Job Interview Star Event. Although many of the State and National school competitions were cancelled this spring, FCCLA decided to host their National Convention virtually. This allowed some of the contests to be held via zoom or in a electronic submission format. Talena qualified for Nationals by being one of the top two scores in her division at the district contest. She had to prepare a portfolio for the judges and will have a half hour interview via Zoom.

We start the week with birthday shout outs. Even though it's a Monday, have a great day. Happy Birthday today, June 8th, to Abdias Abarca and Caden Keller!

Greetings Ithaca administration, staff, students, community members and graduating seniors. Since we are unable to meet as a group for our annual commencement celebration at this time, we would like to share the following links (Ithaca Website, Vidyard and YouTube) to view our virtual graduation ceremony. We have included a PDF version of the "Commencement Paper Program" in on our launch document. This program will be featured throughout our video graduation as well. On Monday, June 1 our graduating seniors, participating staff and administration came together in the Ithaca High School Gymnasium to present speeches, commencement rituals and the presentation of diplomas to be recorded and debuted at the regularly scheduled graduation date and time of June 7, 2020 at 1:00 PM. At this time we are proud, honored and humbled to present to you the commencement ceremony of the Ithaca Class of 2020. (please visit the following document for all of the video launch options) https://docs.google.com/document/d/14EoaVcGZ5tg8ub6QZt7NrINWBeWxLq-jH8P8r1OGqZU/edit?usp=sharing You may also click on any of the following direct links to the video - https://www.ithaca.k12.wi.us/o/ithaca-school-district/page/graduation-2020--16 or https://share.vidyard.com/watch/UtuZ9KpQTBMGWj3CnXrD6b? or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghZGpJDtBas&feature=youtu.be

Before the weekend is over, we can't miss sending birthday wishes out. Happy Birthday to August Ringelstetter today, June 7th!

Athletic Director Mr. Thome received this message from the WIAA who asked him to share: Greetings, We are well aware of a news item posted on the WNFL radio website yesterday that misrepresents the existing reality with regard to football and fall sports. No new announcement was made from our office about the status of fall sports, and an excerpt from an interview with a different media outlet was taken out of context and used as the source. Safety and health continue to be our biggest concerns. More accurately, we are optimistic and hopeful that our schools will be able to provide fall sports. But it will ultimately come down to local and state health leaders who are the experts determining if our schools can provide sport opportunities to their student-athletes. We have been involved in some very detailed and intensive communication with the DHS, DPI and the governor's office - near daily - as we work with our sport medical advisory to develop summer contact guidance for our members should they be able to reopen and offer sports. However, it is not finalized yet. We will be discussing the potential opportunities with our committees beginning with the Sports Advisory on Monday. We have been keeping WADA informed of our efforts to develop guidance. We know and understand the interest in all of this and have been working hard to get it right. We hold out hope that our student-athletes will have opportunities in July and in the fall. In regards to fall sports, what we are sharing with anyone who asks: 1. At this point nothing has been canceled. 2. That status can change as other virus developments might emerge. 3. We HOPE kids might return to their schools come fall, and if they do and if schools reopen, we will do our best to have a plan and guidance that our members might choose to use - along with input from state and local health authorities - to decide locally if they can resume their sport and activity programs. Respectfully, WIAA Executive Staff

Thank you to all the families who have used our Food Service Pick Up program! You've made it a huge success. There is still time today to sign up for next week's program. ALSO, the surveys for the remaining weeks are now open. Complete them all now or up until the Friday before the following week. Find all the surveys on our website under the "News" tab in the "Food Service Survey" article. Each week has it's own survey. Links will also be listed in a Facebook post going out today. Sign up for this FREE service for all children in your home who are senior students and younger.

If the forecast is right, it's a beautiful day to celebrate a birthday! Today, June 6th, we wish Lorenzo Bell a very Happy Birthday!

REMINDER - This Sunday, June 7 at 1:00 PM is our virtual commencement ceremony. We will be sharing information and the links to the ceremony just before 1:00 PM on Sunday. We will send them via email, Twitter, Facebook, our School APP and will post it on our website. We encourage you to make this an event that your graduating senior will remember, forever. Have a nice lunch before the ceremony, talk about fun times at school through the years, take pictures of your senior in cap and gown, have grandma and grandpa (if distancing acceptable) over for the viewing party. We stand with you in this unprecedented and challenging time. Congratulations to the Ithaca class of 2020, and remember to join us this Sunday at 1:00 PM for our virtual graduation ceremony.

Wisconsin families are invited to join the Mission: Healthy Kids Summer Healthy Family Challenge. It's a free and fun way to work on some healthy habits together this summer. Complete the Challenge, and you'll be entered into a drawing to win one of five family prize packages that include for Fitbit Inspire fitness trackers and a $100 Home Chef gift card. Visit missionhealthykids.org for details and to get started on the Challenge!